Thikra

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Jungle Book reimagined

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Chotto Desh

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Over the last 24 years, Akram Khan Company has established itself as one of the foremost innovative dance companies in the world. Embracing an artistic vision that both respects and challenges Indian kathak form and contemporary dance.

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DESH

World Premiere: 15 September 2011, Curve Theatre, Leicester

DESH is a full-length contemporary solo and the most personal work of Akram’s. DESH meaning ‘homeland’ in Bengali, draws multiple tales of land, nation, resist...

Creature (film)

Based on the original concept and choreography by Akram Khan, Creature is the latest film from award-winning director Asif Kapadia. The film premiered on Saturday 15 October and became available in cinemas around the UK from Friday 24 February 2023.

Based on the original concept and choreography by Akram, Creature is the latest film from award-winning director Asif Kapadia. The film premiered on Saturday 15 October and beca...

Carnival of Shadows

As the Company turned 21, we marked the beginning of our third decade of storytelling. From 23 November – 4 December 2021 we presented Carnival of Shadows at Sadler’s Wells, a production curated as part of the programme reflected where, after two decades of learning and collaborating, we had arrived.

“Sadler’s Wells Theatre has been my dancing home for the last 16 years I hold our longstanding relationship with Alistair and the staff at Sadler’s with great ...

Until the Lions

“As in many myths, the female characters are often the unsung heroes, the figures of strength and imagination and endurance. It is their unsung stories in particular that ...

Jungle Book reimagined

“We are now living in unprecedented and uncertain times, not only for our species but for all species on this planet. And the root cause of this conundrum is because we have for...

"Twenty years on, it still feels like we're just beginning. It's exhilarating and beautiful to feel this way."

- Farooq Chaudhry

Carnival of Shadows

"Sadler's Wells Theatre has been my dancing home for the last 16 years I hold our longstanding relationship with Alistair and the staff at Sadler's with great respect an...

"Chotto Desh will inspire children to think about their own stories and perhaps make their own autobiographical art full of truth and beauty."

- Sue Buckmaster

Chotto Desh

World Premiere: 23 October 2015, DanceEast, Ipswich, UK London Premiere: 30 October 2015, Sadler’s Wells, London Last performance: 24 November 2018, Fei and Milton Wong Experi...

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